Ever pick up hitchhikers? That decision usually depends on appearances and circumstances. A thumber’s chances of a ride are far better on country roads, where the sense of distance between towns plays ...

In September 1868, a saloon fire burned the town of Barkerville to the ground. More than 150 years later, another blaze is threatening the place its website describes as the "largest living history ...

After tourists and residents alike were forced to flee the historic community of Barkerville in B.C.'s Interior 12 days ago, the town reopened Friday. Officials ordered the evacuation of the area on ...

There is a lot of depth to Barkerville, the Cariboo gold-rush town that sprang up alongside Williams Creek in the 1860s. Floods were a constant threat to the town in its early days, when thousands of ...

When Stewart Cawood returned to British Columbia’s historic gold rush town of Barkerville earlier this week, he said the town looked almost like it had been “ransacked.” Barkerville and the ...

There may seem like no shortage of stories from the gold rush town of Barkerville, but a pair of researchers have gone rather far afield to find stories of Barkerville's citizens. Amy Newman and ...

Although the former village names of "Coltsville" and "Morningside" are currently in use and familiar to many Pittsfield residents, the name "Barkerville" is rarely heard. Yet, like those earlier ...

Vancouver-based Barkerville Gold Mines (CVE:BGM) has received approval to build an open-pit gold mine at its Bonanza Ledge property in northern B.C. The stock was changing hands at 97 cents on Tuesday ...

When legendary investor and gold bug Eric Sprott speaks at this week’s Sprott-Stansberry Natural Resources Symposium in Vancouver, anyone who lost money and confidence in Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.

Chief and Tribal Chair of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation, Joe Alphonse, welcomes the news that the statue of B.C.'s first chief justice, Matthew Begbie, will be removed from outside a New Westminster ...